1 . Social media offer great ways to socialize and connect with friends and others who share similar interests.
Be careful when you check in or share your location. When checking in somewhere or sharing your location, be aware that you’re actually sharing your whereabouts (行踪) with everyone who has access to what you post.
Don’t share personal information online. Regardless of what kind of social media you’re on, don’t share personal information like your phone number, home address, email address or student ID number.
A.Be aware of what’s public |
B.Keep an eye on your passwords |
C.If you need to share that information, do it privately |
D.However, it’s easy to hide or change one’s identity on any of these social media |
E.You’re announcing where you are to your friends, but also, possibly to strangers |
2 . Here are five habits to help you enjoy a longer and better life.
Reduce stress.
Eat better. You don’t have to adopt some crazy diet or give up all sweets.
Keep moving. Exercise lowers blood pressure, and improves mood. Some research also says it has the power to keep us young. You don’t have to take up running marathons.
Connect with friends.
A.Check with your doctor |
B.Everyone experiences stress |
C.Simply said, we are better together |
D.Just work more movement into your day |
E.Instead, try to eat a few more vegetables and fruits |
3 . Health Is Better Than Wealth
It is widely known that health is of great significance. Leading a healthy life is crucial as being ill makes it hard to be happy.
To enjoy a happy and healthy life, we should take the following steps. Firstly, we need to have breakfast every day and take in proper amounts of vitamins and minerals while reducing fat and cholesterol intake.
In conclusion, by following these steps, we can lead a healthy life and stay away from diseases.
A.And it can also enhance our immune system. |
B.It also helps to regulate our emotions. |
C.What’s more, it can improve our physical fitness. |
D.Then, we should ensure a proper diet. |
E.Also, it is very important to have a balanced diet. |
F.This is very important for our overall well-being. |
G.And proper sleep can make us more energetic. |
4 . Do Animals Have Friends?
When you see little animals playing together around a tree, or a cat and dog sleeping together in the living room, do you ever think — are they friends? One expert, Mike, believes that many animals do have friends. If they’re in the same group, they greet one another, travel together, play together and even share food with each other.
Playing together helps animals keep them close to the group. Wild dogs who don’t play much are more likely to leave the group on their own.
Sharing is another important part of friendship. For all animals, finding food is a matter of life and death. For some bats in Central and South America, if they don’t get a blood meal every three days, they die of hunger.
But sometimes members of a group also compete for food and mates, which can lead to fights. So making up after fights is a key skill. Sometimes after two male monkeys have a fight, they will sit apart, avoiding each other.
A.Each wants the other to make the first move. |
B.Young animals often team up for protection. |
C.But hungry bats don’t need to worry if they have friends. |
D.And leaving the protection of the group can be dangerous. |
E.These friendly behaviors can be important for an animal to survive. |
F.The friend helps to find food and water, and avoid dangerous animals. |
G.Bats take blood from sleeping animals, but they are surprisingly good friends. |
5 . Wildfires are common nowadays. Lightning, campfires, power lines or other sources may lead to big wildfires.
Still, wildfires have always been a part of some forest ecosystems.
Fires can prevent trees from overcrowding each other, which allows smaller plants and animals that need sunlight to grow below. Plus, wildfires burn up a lot of leaf litter, pine needles and other dead matter on the ground. This clears out junk that may stop new plants from growing and releases nutrition back into the soil.
There are also species that have evolved (进化) to depend on regular wildfires. Banksia trees in Australia, for instance, only release their seeds in the heat of a wildfire.
A.The leaf litter can fuel more dangerous wildfires. |
B.These trees need fires if they are to produce more trees. |
C.They might cause more fires that could threaten wildlife. |
D.As a result, fire experts start fires in certain places regularly. |
E.They mainly destroy natural areas, such as forests and grasslands. |
F.And regular burns can be vital for keeping those ecosystems healthy. |
G.Importantly, it also prevents the buildup of dead matter that catches fire easily. |
6 . When it comes to happiness, our present selves habitually get deprived (剥夺).
When we are doing these, it’s as if we put true happiness in a package addressed to us at some future time when circumstances will be just right for it to happen. Yet, the package keeps getting lost.
What causes this? How can we avoid this result? We should know the reason why we make such choices and why our future selves seem like strangers to us is partially due to the abstractness of tomorrow. The solution is to make the future more vivid and create an emotional connection between the present and future selves. Here are several ways to strengthen the connection.
Visualize the best version of yourself.
Imagine yourself in old age. Looking back at now, what do you wish you would have done more or differently with your time?
Once you do such things, you will make choices that will benefit both your present self and future self.
A.Start a conversation between the selves. |
B.What will your future self thank you for? |
C.We often put feeling happy to the future us. |
D.Learn to communicate with others through letters. |
E.What impression did you leave on those around you? |
F.This can make what you do today for the future more worthwhile. |
G.As a result, we are left without enjoyment of the moment in front of us. |
7 . Music is arguably the most life-enriching academic subject.
Increase language capabilities
Music and language have a far-reaching relationship. Musical training stimulates the same part of the brain that deals with understanding language. Children who have some exposure to music al education will, therefore, have a greater understanding of tones and how different phrases are arranged.
Improve hand-eye coordination (协调)
Music is a great way for your child to meet new people and create lasting friendships. If they decide to take up music as an extracurricular (课外的) activity, they’ll be bonding with like-minded children who share their passion. In a time when children are increasingly interested in communicating online and focusing on digital skills, music is a refreshing return to face-to-face contact.
Bring about a sense of achievement
When your child does achieve a musical goal, they get the incredible satisfaction that comes from working hard to obtain something.
A.Develop social skills |
B.Encourage teamwork |
C.In that sense, music is a great confidence builder |
D.Hand-eye coordination is important in many sports |
E.Learning an instrument to a high level is no easy task |
F.It activates emotional responses and creativity like no other |
G.It can be incredibly useful if your child is learning a second language |
8 . Floods can come from multiple sources. It can be a hurricane, failed dam, or overflowing river. The disasters can move quickly.
A flood is simply an event where water overflows a natural area and covers normally dry places. In general, there are two types.
A flood can be caused by many things.
There is no specific flood season.
A.The rising river threatens people’s lives. |
B.Floods can be preventable and predictable. |
C.Flash floods are more common in dry areas. |
D.And sometimes they come with little warning. |
E.The weather forecast accurately predicts all disasters. |
F.They include severe weather, geography, and other man-made factors. |
G.Generally, the period from spring to fall is considered a heightened risk for floods. |
9 . Many people changed residences and are eager to get familiar with their new neighbors. Here’s a quick refresher on making the most of neighborhood relationships.
Begin at the beginning. Building good neighborly relationships starts when you or someone else moves into the area. If a new neighbor moves in, be proactive (主动的) and welcome them to the neighborhood.
Be inclusive. If you are hosting a large party, consider extending invitations to your neighbors. During the holiday season, remember the people next door with a card, a homemade goodie, or an offer of assistance. Give without expectations.
Allow people to be human.
Accept it. If you have tried your best to resolve a conflict without success, let it go. Sadly, some people won’t like you whatever you do. And you aren’t going to enjoy some people.
A.Maintain your space |
B.Be the first to stop by and say hello |
C.It’s easier to accept it and move on |
D.Everyone has a bad day now and then |
E.Take steps to ensure it won’t happen again |
F.Let others know you are thinking of them |
G.Some neighbors are more easygoing than others |
10 . Change can be hard. It means a lack of certainty and predictability.
Control what you can.
Identify your fears. Our imaginations can get the best of us sometimes, and we might exaggerate the problem. Honestly evaluate the change and consider what the worst case is. Determine what specifically is making you worried.
Talk about solutions more than feelings. One of the most common myths (谬见) of coping with unwanted changes is the idea that we can “work through” our anger, fears, and frustrations by talking about them a lot.
A.Take a fair attitude. |
B.Acknowledge the change. |
C.This isn’t always the case. |
D.Look at the positives that will come out of the change. |
E.It helps to have other areas of our life follow a predictable schedule. |
F.You might realize that the worst case is not as bad as you imagined. |
G.However, change is necessary for growth and it is normal to fear what we don’t know. |